Review: The Cyborg's Runaway

 

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Aria is a brilliant scientist. She’s also engaged to a clan-lord. It’s a union she always knew would come, always accepted.

But on her wedding day, she discovers a terrible secret. Horrified, Aria flees.

Vic used to be a space marine. However, after he was badly wounded, and the transitioning to make him a cyborg went wrong, Vic went rogue. He’s now part man, part machine—an outcast, a loner. These days, he works as a trader, and sometimes smuggler, on the hottest galactic routes.

Vic’s solitary existence comes to an end the day he saves Aria from those hunting her—an act that also makes him a wanted man.

On the run together, runaway bride and cyborg soon form a powerful connection.

Yet can it survive the tough decisions they must both face?

Genre: science fiction/ science fiction romance

Publication date: December 2022

Mature content: yes

Review: The Cyborg's Runaway is book 2 in the Galactic Clan Wars by Samantha Charlton. In terms of timeline, it takes place about one year after the end of book 1 (The Bodyguard's Ruin) but it can be read as a stand alone. Jenna and Malik, the main characters from book one do make an appearance (or a few) towards the mid/end of The Cyborg's Runaway, but you still can understand and follow the plot even if you haven't read the previous book. 

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As I finished book 1 I was very curious about Vic's story, and in that sense I liked reading The Cyborg's Runaway very much. I did feel some parts of the plot were a bit weaker, especially in what concerns Aria. She's supposed to be a well-known scientist, and yet she has never been inside the laboratories of her former fiancee's space station - given that one of the reasons said ex-fiancee wanted to marry her in the first place was to have her help his clan's research, it seems strange that she has never been there or met with any of the staff. And at the end, when she's offered an amazing professional career right in her field of research, she ends up sort of declining it. Somehow, that didn't feel very realistic.

Other than that, The Cyborg's Runaway is an action packed book (even more than book 1) with a pretty nice romance thrown in too, and if you love the genre you should give it a try. 

Needless to say, I've moved onto book 3 in the series by now. 

 

Happy readings,

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